Having to look across the lake at the shit hole known as Seattle.
Seattle's a great place to visit, or even work. But unless you're a sewer rat, it just doesn't rate as a place to live.
Geeze I hope the weather improves and people get out and climb!
I worked for a dot com company that imploded into a mall boutique shop. I was one of the people asked to stay on. I spent a week helping set up a store in the Bellevue Mall. There was some Disney deal going on and about a trillion screaming kids running about. I spent more time in the back bowels of the mall than the outter store front area. I stayed in a seedy hotel quite a long way away.
6 years later I can pass by malls without having flashbacks and panic attacks.
However, doing a run every AM in the opposite direction of the mall and flea bag hotel helped.
-r